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22 June 2018, 12:28 PM | #1 |
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Which timezone do you usually set your GMT hand to?
Do you usually set it to your local timezone? And if not, to which timezone?
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22 June 2018, 12:33 PM | #2 |
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Set The GMT Hand to The GMT time in Greenwich England
Also known as UTC or Zulu time by Military or Pilots |
22 June 2018, 12:34 PM | #3 |
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Being an Airline pilot I set my GMT Hand to GMT. Use it all the time for work.
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22 June 2018, 12:35 PM | #4 |
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22 June 2018, 12:40 PM | #5 |
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Home time is eastern. I set the GMT hand to GMT, mainly because my girlfriend is living in England currently.
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22 June 2018, 12:42 PM | #6 |
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I set it to UTC and use references based on UTC to set the local time. Works pretty good for the job.
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22 June 2018, 12:46 PM | #7 |
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non-pilot here. set gmt hand to home time, and then move the hour hand around when i travel
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22 June 2018, 12:47 PM | #8 |
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Eastern and pacific time.
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22 June 2018, 12:48 PM | #9 |
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22 June 2018, 12:50 PM | #10 |
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I've only ever set them to home time.
When crossing timezones, I simply set the Hour hand as required. |
22 June 2018, 12:51 PM | #11 |
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22 June 2018, 12:52 PM | #12 |
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It's not a GMT hand, it's a 24 hr hand - GMT is the name of the watch.
I don't fly any more except as a passenger; I set the 24 hr hand to local time because I travel a lot and it gives me a ready reference to the times I need and use the most. That is exactly how it is supposed to be used, so if UTC time is useful, use it, if something else like local time is most useful, use that.
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22 June 2018, 12:52 PM | #13 |
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I set it to UTC and move the bezel to adjust to the time zone i want to know.
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22 June 2018, 12:55 PM | #14 |
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I set my 24-hour hand to local time and set the bezel to UTC.
I really love the watch and it's complication, but since I've had it, I've only traveled north and south.
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22 June 2018, 12:55 PM | #15 |
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UTC. Adjust hour hand to local time, turn bezel to home time.
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22 June 2018, 01:02 PM | #16 |
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22 June 2018, 01:02 PM | #17 |
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22 June 2018, 01:15 PM | #19 |
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I set it to Baghdad time. Reminds me of my time there and my brother in law is currently stationed there.
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22 June 2018, 01:17 PM | #20 |
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Home time. Travel somewhat frequently, so I move the hour hand as needed. For almost all travel I do its simple enough to do the calculations in my head, its more useful for the 2-3 trips I make to the US each year
For some reason I really struggle with greater than 12 hour timezone differences, takes me a few days after I get there before I can do it instantly I did try setting it to GMT time once when I was away, tbh I didnt really like having the bezel rotated all the time so I changed it back |
22 June 2018, 01:17 PM | #21 |
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Which timezone do you usually set your GMT hand to?
Set the 24 hr hand to UTC.
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22 June 2018, 01:18 PM | #22 |
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Set the GMT hand to GMT, then rotate the bezel to most used 2nd Time zone or home Time zone. Can always rotate back to GMT, but remembering GMT-5 Or 4 or whatever with daylight savings time is kind of a pain.
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22 June 2018, 01:25 PM | #23 |
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Home time.
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22 June 2018, 01:29 PM | #24 |
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My 24 hr hand is set to my home time (PST). When I'm home and the hour hand is also set to PST, I kick the bezel three notches over so the 24hr hand indicates EST since we have a lot of family on the East coast. When I travel, the bezel goes back to 'center' and the hour hand is moved to wherever local time happens to be.
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22 June 2018, 02:00 PM | #25 |
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You set it to your "home" time - whatever that is... UTC, Home, where your family is etc.. it's a point of reference, I'm waiting for someone to say they set the 24 hour hand for where they are and set the hour hand at UTC...
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22 June 2018, 02:13 PM | #28 |
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I just set the hour and minute hand to local time unless I’m traveling.
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22 June 2018, 02:38 PM | #29 |
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home.
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Of course, the original GMT Master could only show 2 formats, 12 and 24hr time, so the innovation was the bezel - not much of a complication.
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